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Altium Designer 21.9.1 Build 22 Altium Designer is a comprehensive system for the automated design of electronic modules based on printed circuit boards, which allows you to perform a full range of design tasks: from creating a functioning concept to releasing a complete set of design and production data.Altium Designer is the most common PCB design system among electronics engineers and designers. Altium Designer is an affordable, efficient and modern software with a single user interface, with the management of a simple and clear licensing system. A single Altium Designer data model allows you to quickly and efficiently design new electronic products. The optimized unified user interface of all editors (UGO, footprint, circuit, board, design documentation, etc.) increases the productivity...

Frontline Genesis 2000 v10.9 With over 9500 seats worldwide, Genesis 2000® is the leading PCB pre-production CAM system, integrating design analysis with automatic data optimization to deliver precise PCB tooling data with unparalleled accuracy and speed. Integrates design analysis, planning, tooling, and workflow management. Cuts cycle time and increases yields through extensive plug-in DFM programs. Synchronizes communication between design and assembly. Easy integration with engineering and production. Genesis 2000® provides optimized CAM via full pre-production automation for PCB fabricators. Extensive plug-in DFM programs cut cycle time and increase yields dramatically. A true CAD/EDA download, fully translated into ODB++ Design, complemented by seamless integration with all system modules and third-party programs, ensures timely and accurate processing of bare board data. Genesis...

Antenna Magus Professional 2021.5 Magus (Pty) Ltd. and CST – Computer Simulation Technology AG (CST) announce the release of Antenna Magus 2021.1. This release includes various features and improvements as well as a number of new antennas and extensions. Antenna Magus is a software tool for the acceleration of the antenna design and modeling process. Validated antenna models can be exported to CST Studio Suite from a huge antenna database of over 350 antennas. Antenna Magus has proven to be an invaluable aid to antenna design engineers and to anyone who requires antenna models for antenna placement and/or electromagnetic interference studies. An engineer can make a more informed choice of antenna element, providing a good starting design and thus increasing...

Proteus Professional 8.13 Proteus is a software package for computer-aided design of electronic circuits. The package is a system of circuit simulation based on models of electronic components adopted in PSpice. A distinctive feature of the Proteus Professional package is the ability to simulate the operation of programmable devices: microcontrollers, microprocessors, DSP, and more. Additionally, the Proteus package includes a PCB design system. Proteus Professional can simulate the following microcontrollers: 8051, ARM7,AVR,Motorola, PIC, Basic Stamp. The component library contains reference data.Supports MK: PIC, 8051, AVR, HC11, MSP430, ARM7 / LPC2000 and other common processors. Over 6,000 analog and digital device models. Works with most compiler and assembler.PROTEUS VSM allows you to very reliably simulate and debug quite complex devices that...

DipTrace v4.2 Multi-Level Hierarchical Schematics Schematic Capture is an advanced circuit design tool with support of multi-sheet and multi-level hierarchical schematics. This module of DipTrace delivers a number of features for visual and logical pin connections. Cross-module management ensures that principal circuits can be easily converted to PCB, back annotated, or imported/exported from other EDA, CAD, and netlist formats. Verification and SPICE export for simulation allow for full project analysis. Visual and Logical Structure All actions and features are visual and intuitive for the designer. Component pins can be connected visually with wires and buses or logically without wires, using net ports, bus ports, or by name. Multi-Level Hierarchy DipTrace hierarchical schematic is based on a multi-sheet circuit structure. Hierarchical...

Mentor Graphics HyperLynx VX.2.10 New Features Introduced in HyperLynx VX.2.10 HyperLynx SI – Signal Integrity HyperLynx SI VX.2.10 provides significant new capabilities for the design and verification of both high-speed serial (SerDes) links and DDR4/5 interfaces, along with improvements for general-purpose Signal Integrity. HyperLynx PI – Power Integrity HyperLynx PI VX.2.10 provides significant new capabilities for the design and verification of board-level Power Delivery Networks (PDNs), including board-level thermal co-simulation. HyperLynx Advanced Solvers (3D EM) HyperLynx Advanced Solvers VX.2.10 provides significant new capabilities for accurate 3D EM modeling of critical areas in high-speed systems designs. HyperLynx DRC – Electrical Rule Checks HyperLynx DRC VX.2.10 provides significant new capabilities for rapid checking of high-speed designs, including the ability to accelerate runs...

Mentor Graphics PADS Professional VX.2.10 Mentor Graphics Corporation, a Siemens business, is pleased to announce the availability of PADS Professional VX 2.10. This release focuses on enhancements to the core technology many of which have been suggested by you through Siemens Ideas. New Products and Features in PADS Professional VX.2.10 PADS Professional VX.2.10 delivers enhancements to improve engineers and designer\’s productivity, including engineer created parts, PADS Designer UX optimization, core layout enhancements, and improved migration of libraries and designs from other tools into PADS Professional. PADS Professional Flow The PADS Professional VX.2.10 release addresses a number of user reported issues and incorporates available user feedback on new functionality introduced in the past release PADS Professional is powerful, but it’s also...

Keysight IC-CAP 2020 Update 2.1 The PathWave development team is pleased to announce the availability of Device Modeling (IC-CAP) 2020 Update 2.1. This update includes AFS simulator support, CSV data import/export, New Python module structure and bug fixes. PathWave Device Modeling (IC-CAP) software is the industry standard for DC and RF semiconductor device modeling. The Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program (IC-CAP) extracts accurate compact models used in high speed/digital, analog and power RF applications. Today’s most advanced semiconductor foundries and IDMs rely on IC-CAP for modeling silicon CMOS, Bipolar, compound gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN) and many other IC device technologies. IC-CAP is the most advanced, customizable modeling software and includes measurement, simulation, optimization and statistical analysis tools....

Mentor Graphics Questasim v2021.2.1 Mentor, a Siemens business, is pleased to announce the availability of QuestaSim 2021.1 comprehensive platform for verification complex designs. Questa is built on a core simulation and debug engine providing the industry\’s most complete native support of Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, SystemC, PSL and UPF. General Defects Repaired in 2021.1 QSIM-55060 – Running vopt to re-generate an existing optimized design after the work library had been moved in the file system would sometimes produce an error message involving the original file pathnames. The behavior has been fixed, and vopt will now re-generate the optimized design. QSIM-68141 – (results) Some VCD files contain extended (VHDL) identifiers. The vcd2wlf and vcd2qwave tools did not always read these identifiers correctly....

Mentor Graphics Xpedition Enterprise VX 2.10 Xpedition Enterpriseis the industry\’s most innovative PCB design flow, providing integration from system design definition, electronics design, electro-mechanical co-design, simulation and verification, all the way to PCB manufacturing. Its unique, patented technologies can reduce design cycles by 50 percent or more, while significantly improving overall quality and resource efficiency. Xpedition VX.2.10 brings significant improvements to design reuse, supply chain integration, multi-board systems design, and high-speed design, including constraints, routing, and verification. Productivity-enhancing design aids and increased performance are available across the flow. Tour Xpedition Enterprise in Seven Minutes This video provides a tour of the unique patented technologies within Xpedition. Mentor Graphics Corporation, a Siemens business, is a world leader in electronic hardware and...